iMiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinii The New IFiima niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiti iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiii inn A Raisin in the Sun to Squirrel Hill; Fulton Note Shotting Tome September By WIN FANNING There is a delightful ide If a real understanding be- play Involving the daughter tween races ever develops In and ner Africa" student suitor, this country certainly a sig Some of tne 8cene between niflcant entry on the credit them re tender- most are .heet .hould be made for -Alffi J. " 3USt Raisin In the Sua" t 1 j- i . . ' , , In the leading roles Miss Here transfered almost In- Claudia McNeil portrays what tact from the stage produe'ean only be described as the tlon, cast and all, Is a slice of universal mother whose entire life In Chicago which is so i life is wrapped up in those of sKiuiuiiy recorded that it i her children. Her's is eems as though It is being 1 nificently effective viewed in a magic mirror. ! ance. It is filled with the spices of life as well as the less sav ; Mr. Sidney Poitier may ory elements. The laughter well earn himself an Oscar for it invokes is no less genuinely his charactization of the son. inspired than are the tears Miss Ruby Dee is superb as which sometimes follow. The his loving and understanding "problems" dealt with have wife. A fine performance is about them the ring of authen- j contributed by Miss Diana a mag- perform- ticity so commonly lacking in "problem" dramas. Its characters are so true to life a slap on the screen stings every face in the audience. The underlying strength of Sands in which, as the daughter, she combines good sense and good humor for maximum effect. Mr. Ivan Dixon is exceptionally convincing as the African student. Mr. Daniel Petrie's direction M l s s Lorraine Hansbury's . of the Messrs. David Suss- screen play is that while the ; family concerned Is Negro only in certain special areas ! are the problems they face unique to their racial group. Miss Hansbury's mother, son, daughter and daughter-in-law react to each other and to the kind-Philin Rose production is inspired. The photography, by Mr. Charles Lawton, Jr., is unusually effective for this type of semi stape setting. "A Raisin In the Sun" pro- .ir,.t.,. f . i.M 1 vldes a wealth of entertain check which will bring them I muen reaJteal,to thi"k sudden modest wealth no dif 1 "bout. This is a difficult combi- ' nation 10 Deal. 'Come September Fulton ferently than would any hard ; working, ambitious laborer's family of any race. The father has died after a ; lifetime devoted to keeping his head just a tiny notch above the financial waters. The widow, proud of the five At the end of the film the By LEE McINERNEY Nobody can take "Come Sept ember" seriously, and have lived in this country, I that's exactly what will sell t. plana to put part of the It's got popular appeal, In inn.v Jntn n but at- laughter and in impossible sit-, tractive, house. Part will go uations, and in its five stars, for her daughter's medical , notably Miss Gina Lollobrigida education. Part, she finally ana Mr. kock nuason. srees. will be the down Day ment on the son's projected Fulton audience clapped out- liquor business. right, a rare thing from movie! The fact that to some ex- audiences today, but that's tpnt the son's plans are a di- how happy everybody felt. rect result of his desire to From the time Mr. Hudson's rise above his present social, Rolls Royce is chauffeured off en-station is only incidentally con- the plane, Ivu plane, into the nected with "the fact that he Italian streets, a light-hearted ( is chauffeur to a white man. j romantic mood is set, and if His conflict with his mother, j underneath it all are the mak-1 who believes that he plans to ings of an immoral rendezvous enter a sinful business, is between Miss Lollobrigida and much more important than Mr. Hudson, who cares? any vague feeling of racial disrimination. For one thng Mr Hudson is constantly being foiled in It is only when the mother njs amorous attempts with puts a down payment on a M,ss Loi0brigida. nouse m an an-wmie neiguuui' hood and when the "neigh borhood improvement associa- d,"; t.. Au ": As an American millionaire, he owns a posh villa on the a- A- i al. s Italian rtiviera vine esiaie. on , llv out that thnenalons be- a hi above the sPa of Santal lly out-that the tensions be-, M . actually an tween white man and black Ma.rKner"a, is aciuaiiy an , i u t ,... it itanan wool Kinesj: ana n is the open. And even here, I theret among the bougainvillea much to her credit, Miss Hans- iw with his own spectacular view oi ine ivieauei raneaii inai Mr. Hudson plans to meet his beautiful Gina. bury's obvious bitterness is restrained in all but one short powerful scene when she pulls out all the stops of pent-up emotion to utter a cry for her 'race and hope for the future. He meets her there every year, usually in September, but, madly anxious this year
